Spirals
It was almost shocking, really. How Kiriko's hands tore through the wet, slimy muscle surrounding her body. She ripped the tentacle in half with ease, pulling its suction cups off her armor and slamming its gored vestiges to the pavement. A shockwave rippled through the air, sending gray debris flying.
Such strength.
My sister dove for her target: The gill-covered fish girl that had intended to incapacitate her and do Goddess-knows-what. But before Kiriko could even hit the ground, the Salmon slid to a manhole, pried open its lid, and escaped into the dark, watery depths of the sewer below. Certainly, she was already swimming back to the run, back to her fellow predators, the last survivor from a vicious, hour-long fight.
"Damnit, she got away," my older sister moaned. Her body was covered in slick, sticky slime, which she wiped off with an annoyed grimace. "I don't know what's worse, Sirens singing girls into their lairs, or Salmons wrapping those tentacles around innocent bystanders and, well, you know the rest."
"Yeah, I'm all too familiar, sis." I wiggled and squirmed, trying desperately (and admittedly, futilely) to escape. I was still restrained by a half dozen tentacles, which held my arms and legs tight against my sides, refusing to let me go. "Could you help me out of this crap?"
"Oh, right, of course."
Kiriko dropped from the sky and kneeled over me. With two quick flicks, she pulled off her slime-coated gloves and placed a hand on my forehead, feeling it, assessing my temperature and health. Standard operating procedure after a monster girl attack. Who knows what venoms, poisons, and pervert magic shit these girls were up to?
It was funny, though. I didn't feel like I was getting a combat triage assessment. Kiriko's face was calm, focused, concerned. It reminded me a bit of Mom. When I was young and sick with a fever, she stood over me and checked my temperature. Her gentle skin felt so nice, so cool against the oppressive heat of that illness. Mom was gone now, but Kiriko was unmistakably the mother between the two of us. Watching over me like Mom did, making sure I was eating right. Or, well, eating, period.
But even though we lived together, it had been a minute since I saw my sister this up close in her uniform. I was almost jealous of how perfectly it showed her curves. Kiriko, my older sister, she was the trans girl between the two of us, yet genetics and hormones blessed her with everything. Round breasts, thick thighs, supple hips, even an hourglass figure. How did a girl look so perfect?
I asked her if she tried feminization magic, and she simply shook her head. "I like going old-fashioned," she said. "Looking like the girls who joined after they transitioned. Besides, I feel pretty enough. No need to use magic when I feel alright with what I've got."
Ha,
alright
. Like she was anything short of perfection between the two of us.
Me, on the other hand? Her younger sister? Puberty passed me by. A flat chest, boyish hips, hell, I couldn't even tone up like her. That's why Kiriko got Combat class, and poor little Akemi, well, I was stuck in Support class doing magic. Maybe I wouldn't have been pulled down to the ground by a bunch of tentacles for 30 minutes if I was actually strong enough to fight those pink fish monster girls by myself.
Not that I could seek out feminization magic and look a bit more like my sister. Believe me, I tried. Even the fancy new stuff my girlfriend Calliope invented wouldn't do shit for me. "Goddess likes you the way you are, babe," she said with a shrug. "We can't all look like anime girls."
The air stood still as Kiriko continued checking on me. There was so much damage and destruction, so much rubble. Thank Goddess we cleared the area for the next mile, this whole situation could have turned into a Salmon-human breeding frenzy. Luckily, the only girl pinned down was me, and that was it. Not a civilian detained.
So, no damage control to do, no innocents to calm down or rescue. Nothing to do but pass the time and wait for the all-clear to get me out of this damn thing, right? I decided to make a little small talk while Kiriko finished up.
"Hey, weird question."
My sister's hand was still on my forehead, assessing my health. She seemed like she was in deep focus. "Oh," she said, breaking her trance. "Sorry, what?"
"Why are they called Salmon anyway?" I asked. "I mean, aren't regular salmon gray? We just dye them so they look yummy?"
"Huh. Yeah, I think it's something like that. No one wants to eat a bagel with cream cheese and gray fish meat."
"Exactly." I smiled, trying to stave off post-combat drop. Return some feeling of normalcy after all the carnage and destruction. "And yet these fish girls are pink."
"You know, you're right."
"So why are they pink?"
Kiriko paused and thought carefully. Her hand was still on my forehead. Why wasn't she pulling the tentacles off me yet? "Maybe we came up with the name, and they call themselves something different. Sirens call themselves Sirens, but those feminizing maneater plants call themselves Saccophytes."
"Ah, that's true. Maybe they aren't even related to salmon at all, maybe they're just like weird ass sea girls that prey on women or something."
"That could be it."
Philosophically fun conversation! But Kiriko still wasn't done. What was the hold up? What was going on? I wanted out of this stupid shit. It was time to go.
"Okay, this is cute, but let's get me out of the tentacles already," I said. "I feel gross as shit and want some food."
A look of concern flashed across my sister's face. "I can't do that."
"What the hell, sis?" Damnit, I knew something was off. "I feel like I'm getting the life sucked out of me. Get me out."
Kiriko moved her hand off me. Wordlessly, she twisted her wrist, twinkled her fingers, and a projection of a Salmon appeared. That naked, gilled girl, completely indecent from the bottom to the top, baring sharp teeth, clawed fingers, exposed nipples, and, yes, a nice uncut girldick. Slim but curvy, it was like looking in a mirror and seeing me... well, if I had a child-bearing hips. And a penis. Hell, you could even see her tentacles on her back wiggle in the diagram.
Ugh, why did such a terrible sex-obsessed carnivore have to look so
cute
?
"See the tentacles here? Well, the longer a pair of detached tentacles latch on to a victim's exposed skin, the harder it is to remove them without damaging the captor," my sister explained. She twisted her fingers again and, oh, that was a diagram of me! Wrapped in tentacles. "You haven't fought that many Salmon yet, so you've never seen this first-hand. We only just learned this recently when they started fighting the Sirens for control of the sewer system. Let me show you what would happen if I removed your tentacles right now."